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Experts analyze that the Democratic Party's Media Arbitration Act has been partially revised, but there are still a number of poisonous provisions. For example, Choi Soon-sil, who has now changed her name to Choi Seo-won, may even claim punitive damages in an article accusing the state government nongdan incident.



Reporter Kang Cheong-wan examined the concerns in detail.



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particularly controversial article is Article 30, Paragraph 2, 'Special rules for false reports'.



In the original draft, it was presumed that the violation of the law in the reporting process was intentional or gross negligence, but there was a concern that those in power who were the subject of the reporting of the accusation would abuse the 'strategic blockade lawsuit' to block the reporting by claiming that the reporting process violated the law.



Democrats dropped this provision.



[Lee Byung-hoon / Democratic Party Member: I have filtered out a lot of such provisions that are likely to be abused in the field this time.]



Two of the six presumed conditions have been deleted, but the fundamental blind spot remains.



According to the great principle of the Civil Code, the burden of proving intentional or gross negligence should be on the party who filed the lawsuit, but it was passed on to the media through the presumption clause.



There is also a high risk of being misused for censorship of critical reports by making clauses with subjective terms such as 'retaliatory' and 'difficult to recover'.



The Democratic Party amended that high-ranking public officials and large corporations would not be entitled to claim punitive damages, but for example, 'non-prime power'.Family members of public figures, etc. are eligible to claim.



[Choehyeongdu / the national forces Rep: Scary law might be the law iteotdamyeon I bet I pray choesunsil Mr. Sue (the media) just as punitive sonbaeso 5x]



pointed to anything ginseng off-the-shelf media as the primary regulatory target problem It's possible.



Last year, 99.5% of fake news related to COVID-19, which was corrected by the Korea Communications Standards Commission, came from the Internet community and SNS.



[Yoon Seok-min/Professor of Media Information at Seoul National University: It is now recognized all over the world that fact-checking (fake news) through the existing media is the most effective countermeasure, so we continue to make efforts to check facts.]



Ambiguous legal structure in academia and legal circles, etc. There is also a prospect that unconstitutional lawsuits will follow.



(Video coverage: Jeong Sang-bo, video editing: Ha Seong-won)  



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